Re: Webserver: How to cater for dynamic sets of radio buttons?

> We have a table that contains a number of entries, each corresponding to a
> question. I need to create an HTML page that lists the questions, and
> provides some radio buttons for each question to allow a response to be
> recorded.
>
> This is proving problematic for a number of reasons.
>
> 1. If I define all the radio buttons with the same name, and end up with
> (say) 5 lots of 2 radio buttons for five questions, then only one out of 10
> buttons can be ON at one time. This isn't what I want, so I need to
> distinguish between the 5 groups of buttons.
>
> 2. If I DO distinguish between the 5 lots of buttons (by, say, question
> number), then how do I cater for it in my program when I don't know how many
> groups of buttons I will be dealing with?
>
> At the moment, I'm facing catering for a fixed upper limit of say 200
> groups. This means that my program will be full of huge lists of variables
> and lots of IF...THEN...ELSEs - not an elegant sight.
>
> Could someone suggest any possible alternatives?

Hi Ak

The easiest way to avoid radio button headaches is to use comboboxes instead.

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